Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad

FAIN: FV-50395-14

Colgate University (Hamilton, NY 13346-1338)
Graham Russell Hodges (Project Director: March 2014 to May 2016)

A three-week seminar for sixteen school teachers to study the history of the Underground Railroad and abolitionism.

A three-week Summer Seminar for teachers on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad in America from the colonial days until the Civil War to be held at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, from July 5-July 24, 2015. The proposed seminar will provide to sixteen middle and high school teachers lectures, discussions by some of the foremost scholars in the field, supply ample secondary readings and primary texts, and offer films and field trips to sites relevant to the institute’s purpose. Graham Russell Hodges, the George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana Studies & Latin American Studies at Colgate will organize and direct the institute.